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ELVA LAI
  • News
  • About Elva
  • Overview
  • 2019 Emotion Dictionary
  • 2018 A Warm Room
  • *2015-17 Project : ​FREEDOM SWIMMERS 2015-17
    • 2017 #1 Landskrona
    • 2017 #2 Germany
    • 2017 #3 Hong Kong
    • 2017 #4 Belgium
  • 2017 Voice Welcome
  • 2017 'CASINO'
  • 2017 Air Bubble: the voice of a room
  • 2017 Tips for a better life
  • 2016 A Sense of Homeland
  • 2016 I am sorry, my old land. Bye bye, bye bye
  • *2015 "How about the other 80% you forgot?"
  • *2015 "Sorry, it's fragile."
  • 2013-14 Project: Memory Image of migration
  • 2014 Blue Fountain
  • CV
  • 中文
  • News
  • About Elva
  • Overview
  • 2019 Emotion Dictionary
  • 2018 A Warm Room
  • *2015-17 Project : ​FREEDOM SWIMMERS 2015-17
    • 2017 #1 Landskrona
    • 2017 #2 Germany
    • 2017 #3 Hong Kong
    • 2017 #4 Belgium
  • 2017 Voice Welcome
  • 2017 'CASINO'
  • 2017 Air Bubble: the voice of a room
  • 2017 Tips for a better life
  • 2016 A Sense of Homeland
  • 2016 I am sorry, my old land. Bye bye, bye bye
  • *2015 "How about the other 80% you forgot?"
  • *2015 "Sorry, it's fragile."
  • 2013-14 Project: Memory Image of migration
  • 2014 Blue Fountain
  • CV
  • 中文
ELVA LAI
Elva is a fine art artist. Her work examines the instabilities inherent in the modality of photography and searches for sensitivities of photographic representation. She studied in Germany, the States and Hong Kong respectively and was awarded the Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize in 2013 and Freeman Creative Prize in 2015. She is the winner of The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016 and had her solo show in the Landskrona Foto Festival 2017 in Sweden.
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Elva LAI lives and works in Hong Kong.

Education

2015-2017
Meisterschülerin, 
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig Germany
Klasse für Installation und Raum bei Prof. Joachim Blank, 
Class of Installation and Space

2013-2015
Master of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2012
Exchange programme, School of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

2009-2013
Bachelor of Fine Arts of The Chinese University of Hong Kong 

Conference programme

2016
Seminar und Symposium “Über die Grenze”, SS
Institut für Theorie, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig

Capital & Communication: Visualising Chinese Borders in the 21st Century by the Manchester Metropolitan University and the Institute of Creative Industries Design at National Cheng Kung University

Artist-in-Residency Stay

2017  Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels,Belgium
2016  The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency, Sweden
http://www.landskronafoto.org/en/residency/
2014  La Galere, Cotignac, France. Supported by Justice Center Hong Kong and Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize

Awards​

2016
The Landskrona Foto and Fröfabriken Creative Space Residency 2016
2015
Freeman Creative Prize
2013
Talent Development Scholarship 2013/14, the HKSAR Government Fund
Reaching Out Award 2013/14, the HKSAR Government Fund
Friends of the Arts of Museum Research Grant
Hong Kong Human Right Art Prize (Justice Center Hong Kong)
Culture Corner Art Academy Fine Arts Award
Cheung’s Fine Arts Award
Y.S. Hui Fine Arts Award
Grotto Fine Art Award
2011
Gaylord Chan Painting Award
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Solo Exhibition​

2019
EMOTION DICTIONARY​, JCCAC, Hong Kong
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2017
FREEDOM SWIMMERS, Artist Residency in ODRADEK, Brussels, Belgium
FREEDOM SWIMMERS, MZIN, Leipzig,Germany
FREEDOM SWIMMERS, Landskrona Foto Festival ,Landskrona Sweden

2015
“How about the other 80% you forgot?” Cheng Ming Building, New Asia College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Sorry, it’s fragile”, Artify Gallery, Hong Kong
2014  
One Hundred Thousand Whys, Ching Ming Building, New Asia College, CUHK, Hong Kong 
2013
Delusional Disorder, New Asia College, CUHK, Hong Kong  

Selected group Exhibition

2017
Ways of Surviving through Accelerated Mindfulness, 1a Space, Hong Kong
Composing Stories with Fragments of Time, 
Works by Kurt Chan, Annie Wan, Francis Yu, Luke Ching, Angela Su, Lau Chi Chung, Carmen Ng, and Elva Lai, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
Operation Grenze,Ausstellungsprojekts in der Gedenkstätte Deutsche Teilung Marienborn, Germany
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2016
Ausstellung der Klasse für Installation und Raum, Galerie bipolar, Leipzig Germany
Frühlingsrundgang Spinnerei, Open studio:studio in the hall 18 , Spinnerei, Leipzig
​C.A.R.contemporary art ruhr ​Die Mediakunst Messe (Media Art Fair)Welterbe Zollverein World Cultural Heritage Site Zollverein XII, SANAA building, Essen

2015
All Day Breakfast, Joint exhibition of Elva Lai  and Szelit Cheung, ACO, Hong Kong
Uncertainties. Asian Digital Art Exhibition (First Edition), LA CASA CHINA , Spain

2014
From 3G to 4G, Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong 
Our Beautiful Days, New Asia College Ch’ien Mu Library, Chinese University of Hong Kong
A given moment in somewhere, some people and something, An Exhibition by TSAI Yi-Ting & Elva LAI, a.m. space, Hong Kong 
Out of light, The A. lift Gallery, Hong Kong 
Our 1989-99 Project, Fine Arts Department of CUHK & Taipei National University of the Arts, 8 2/1 gallery, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taiwan

2013
Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize 2013, Sundaram Tagore Gallery, Hong Kong
Trava(i)l, The A. lift Gallery, Hong Kong 
Documentation as Drawing, a.m. space, Hong Kong 
disturbances, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong 
Hong Kong Art Prize 2013 Exhibition, Wheelock Gallery, Hong Kong 
<356,955km> , Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
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